Another winter in yet another decade
A dying soul never healed
Forever weakening in the hands of
This destiny forsaken

6. Crown Of Emptiness (4:49)

Substancial memories worn out through the years
Like old pictures fades into persistent oblivion
The shades of the past relightens the sorrow
Unveil my sense and let forgetting relieve

Like a curse destined to me, this crown of emptiness
Fallen for my joy denied, the crown of emptiness

Obscure truth that i have to relive
A sadness ever consuming
My back turned to the world i cry
And await for the touch of mercy

A soul to cherish forever, i wasn t allowed to sustain
In a world perfect, there would be no room for me

Substancial memories worn out through the years
Like old pictures fades into persistent oblivion
The shades of the past relightens the sorrow
Unveil my sense and let forgetting relieve

Like a curse destined to me, this crown of emptiness
Fallen for my joy denied, the crown of emptiness

See my tears, feel my world, open heart to life s irony
Search your soul in my hands, the joy that wasn t ment for me

See my tears, feel my world, open heart to life s irony
Search your soul in my hands, the joy that wasn t ment for me

7. And I Close My Eyes (5:26)

As the sun sets, nothing have I done
A human life, like a blink of an eye for a god
As the time ends, born is a sense of failure
You watch us fall, and you close your eyes

I asked you for the meaning, for all my efforts
Why now when I could be so close to redemption
What is the point when I accomplished nothing
You felt my frustration, and you closed your eyes

Why the wars and hunger, injustice and pain
All the tears shed for a lost, endless cause
Why all this suffering, for a life we don t even understand
I want to know, but you closed your eyes

As the sun sets, nothing have I done
A human life, like a blink of an eye for a god
As the time ends, born is a sense of failure
You watch us fall, and you close your eyes

It hurts me to death to see, the things that we put others through
The beauty of life raped by this selfish world
You chose to show me the truth, a vision of total knowledge
I saw the end that we create and even I close eyes

All these tears shed for a lost, endless cause

I watch the falling skies, I see the determined rain
Tearing up the sadness surrounding
And even I close my eyes

I asked you for the meaning, for all my efforts
Why now when I could be so close to redemption
What is the point when I accomplished nothing
You felt my frustration, and we closed our eyes

8. Eternal (3:50)

[Originally performed by Paradise Lost]

Why can t we hear
The time must come for us to leave here
Emotion has withered away
Our burnt out love has decayed

Obsessed to leave the earth
Tragedy has overrun since birth

Now our righteous fathers weep
As we greet eternal sleep
Are we born to pass away

Cry at all that remains
Chosen words fail to sustain
The wisdom of powers heard
In dismal thoughts seemingly absurd

Now as hope and glory dies
We ll scream at our demise
Are we lost forever more

Now our righteous fathers weep
we ll greet eternal sleep
Are we born to pass away

9. Undeleived World (3:55)

For ages striven for guidance to harmony
Searching for answers to life s mysteries

The world we once knew now ceased to exist
Our science left no questions
Only an emptiness surrounding our lives
It should have stayed untold

Open eyes, into tears of undeceived world
Into life for us for so long unbeknown

Struck by disorder and confusion
A new civilization built upon the ruin of man
Why did it have to take this long to reveal
The truth of life

The world we once knew now ceased to exist
Our science left no questions
Only an emptiness surrounding our lives
It should have stayed untold

Open eyes, into tears of undeceived world
Into life for us for so long unbeknown

Open eyes, into tears of undeceived world
Into life for us for so long unbeknown

10. The Tears Of Time (6:45)

Even in death your beauty was drowning
The sadness of life is not for you no more
I embrace you and hold you tight in my arms
Mild as a mother I kiss you to a dreamless sleep

In your eyes I saw the pain for the task you had
In front of you, a game none of us can ever win

The tears for time, all we had together, the tears for time

In your comforting arms crying the last joy of my life
Never-lasting love in a hopeful moment, end was at hand

The tears for time, the tears for time

After endless hesitation you finally kissed me
with sadness, and the memory I will bring with me
In whatever here after follows

In your eyes I saw the pain for the task you had
In front of you, a game none of us can ever win